RACING NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22711, 25 October 1935, Page 13

RACING NEWS

By Sentinel.

Both Way* The win and place machine will he in use at the Wellington spring meeting. High Glee’* Prospects There will be plenty of southern money to say that High Glee will race well at Trentham. Viking Viking will be racing under a featherweight at Gore, and will probably start favourite for the Stewards’ Handicap. Travenna, Travenna has been standing up to work, and may shape well at the Gore meeting. He is, however, set to give weight to some speedy horses, Th« New Zealand Cup Meeting Payments are due to-day for the New Zealand Cup and Stewards’ Handicap. Forfeits for the Welcome Stakes, Derby, and Oaks and general nominations also fail due to-day., f Trip Cancelled Miracle, though an acceptor for the fuse day at Trentham, will not fulfil his engagement. He had been working well, but he showed signs of soreness a tew days ago, so F. D. Jones has decided to ease him up till the trouble wears off. Waikouaiti and Oamaru Races Nominations for the Waikouaiti and Oamaru Jockey Clubs’ New Year meetings will close with the secretary of the Oamaru Jockey Club, at Oamaru, on Monday, December 9, at 8 p.m. The handicaps will appear in the morning papers cl Monday, December 16, and acceptances for both meetings will close with the secretary of the Oamaru Jockey Club, at Oamaru, on Thursday, December 19, at S p.m:

Cherry Queen Cherry Queen showed a retention of •peed at the Dunedin spring meeting, when she finished second to Silver Streak. At Gore, Cherry Queen meets Hula Belle, who .was unplaced at Wingatui, on the same terms. Vintage. Vintage is not generally regarded as a sprinter, but a horse that can run a mile and a-quarter in 2min 4sec is not deficient in speed. Training a horse for a journey sometimes takes the edge off speed, but really good horses are at home over any distance. Vintage might at present be a bit slow in gathering spepd, but once balanced in action would be running on when others are stopping. Worship Worship may cause some _ trouble at Gore where he is in at a light weight. On the second day at Gerdldine he carried 9.0, and was beaten a length by Gold Cross, who won in Imin 47 3-ssec. By way of comparison Wino 8.6 won over the same distance in Imin 46sec. At Gore Worship will carry 251 b less than he did at Geraldine, but will have an extra furlong and a-half to cover. Beam Last season Beam won six races, and was four times placed out’ of 15 starts. At Riverton she beat Hula Belle when handicapped at B.l' each, and they meet again on the same terms at Gore. Cherry Queen was fourth in-the race mentioned when giving Beam and Hula Belle /lb each, and they meet again on the same terms. Beam gave Cherry Queen 91b, and ran her to a neck in the Farewell Handicap at Riverton, and over a furlong less ground at Gore comes in on 161 b better terms. -If fit and well Beam should help at least to keep the opposition busy. Argentic Argentic is fancied in some quarters as a likely winner in the near future. He has been seen out three times this season, and in his last stark showed improvement by running fourth to silver Sight at Ashburton. Argentic meets Silver Sight at Wellington on 11b better terms, and hence there is very little in his favour bar improvement in racing condition. Last season Argentic was third in the Ashburton Handicap, and gave 141 b to Silver Sight, who was unplaced Later in the season Argentic had 9.7 in the Buchanan Memorial with Silver Sight

7.9 fourth. Argentic has not been too sound, but fit and well would be very troublesome at his present handicap. Riders for Gore J. W Jenkins will ride Travenna and Sunny Jean at Gore, F. E. Ingram Sungem, and C. G. Humphries Britomartis and Honest Maid. An Unusual Trophy The Westland Racing Club lias an unusual trophy for the winner of the principal event (Westland Gup) at its summer meeting on December 26, 28, and 30. This will be an oil painting of Coaming by a New Zealand artist. Additional trophies for other events are a silver cup and two canteens of cutlery. Australian-bred Brabant, the winner of the two-year-old race at Masterton, is a bay colt by Vaals from Roselove, and although bred in New Zealand he is of Australian parentage on both sides. Vaals is siring speedv stock, but on the dam’s side Brabant should also stay, his dam Roselove being by Rossendale from Belovc, by Haut Brion—Adoration, by Nordenfeldt—ldolatry, by Isonomy. Looks Good The two-year-old colt Siegmund, who ran second to Brabant, would attract attention by his looks alone, apart from the promise he showed. He is as big as a three-year-old and on the race he ran he should not be long in winning. _ He is also very attractively bred, being by Siegfried from Lilimond, by Limond from Farce, bv San Fran or Absurd from Cowl. This is the family (says-an exchange) that produced The Monk, Rational, Habit, and many other good gallopers bred at Koatanui. Siegmund ■ shows many of the Limond characteristics. At Randwick In every way the Australian Jockey Club’s spring meeting was a success. Four days of glorious sunshine attracted 185,000 people, as against 131,000 last year. The track was inclined to be loose and dusty, due chiefly to the abnormally dry winter and spring. Totalisator business did not flag (says “Vedette”), £190,716 being wagered, as against £174,47,9 last year, when there were 27 races as against 24 this year. Further, the Randwick Plate last year was quite a good betting race, but this year, with only four starters, there was no place betting. The main feature of the totalisator betting has been the increase on the straiglitout machine, but place-betting maintained its position. A Lean Tima It was probably the leanest Randwick spring meeting for New Zealanders foi many years. In the lengthy list of stakeearnera (says an exchange), right down near the bottom on the £IBO mark came Messrs Townsend and Montgomery, the top scorers from the Dominion. This was brought about by Silver Jubilee’s third in the Shorts. The Randwick trainer J. King, thanks to Oro and Spirits, topped the list with £4250. Second place was shared by Mr W. T. Brunton (Homer) and Messrs Williamson and Mulligan (Allunga), whose dead-heat in the Derby was worth £2300 apiece. Peter Pan’s two wins profited Mr R. R. Dangar to the extent of £2250, and Mr J. A. Phillips, with Synagogue and Great Legend, received £1950. The ex-New Zealander Mr E. J. Watt, through the activities of Fanfare and Gold Rod, took £1450, and High Cross, despite his bad luck, still netted £l2oo' for Mr T. Clune. Sanguine King's Weight It requires courage to admit a mistake, hut the Wellington handicapper (Mr H. Coyle) has not hesitated to do so in making his rehandicapa for the Wellington meeting (says the Evening Post). The horse concerned is Sanguine King. In his weights for the first day of the Masterton meeting Mr Coyle set Arctic Star on 10.3 and Sanguine King on 10.1 in the hurdles. Sanguine King was making his debut at the game, and won decisively. On the second day he lifted Sanguine King to 11.2 and dropped Arctic Star to 10.1, and Arctic Star won; but it was doubtful to those watching the race if Sanguine King was quite the horse lie was on the first day, when his connections also started him in the open seven (in which he ran second to Slippery) , for he was being required to undertake a big job, though he looked well enough for anything. In his Wellington handicaps, issued before the first day at Masterton, Mr Coyle originally set Sanguine King on 9.3 and Arctic Star on 9.0, his relative higher assessment of Sanguine King, even allowing for the different distance, not being easy to understand, but he has taken full opportunity of his chance to reassess these horses, lifting Sanguine King 81b to 9.11 by a rehandicap, but leaving Arctic Star still on the minimum. A Question of Weight One surprise in the Wellington -weights was the assessment of Vintage in the Shorts Handicap. Granted that v mtage is proved only ss ci stfljone would not have expected any risk to have been taken with him till he had at least been tried over a sprint course. Fifteen vears ago that great stayer Sasanor demonstrated that he could win five-fur-long races as .easily as two-mile events when weighted right up to his correct class Mr Coyle, of course, had no sprint line at all on Vintage, but (says “ Rangitiri ”) it is believed that he should not, therefore, have lowered the measure of his class as revealed in the races he had contested before he had shown he could not sprint. Vintage was in a class of his own among the longer handicaps last season, and there he should have been kept, whatever kind of race he might contest, till he has demonstrated deficiency in any particular department. The Mew Zealand Cup weights often provide an illustration of this principle, but in the reverse way, that is, a proved sprinter and untried stayer is still assessed at his best class. Two years ago Autopay and Inflation were the two top-weights in the New Zealand Cup, and in this year’s race Silver Ring is second top-weight to Vintage, though he has never been tried as a stayer. Then, as more to the present point, Jonathan, though admittedly he had proved hie versatility over various distances, was weighted at 9.12 in the Shorts Handicap at Ellerslie last Saturday week, and he actually finished second with it, (bough he was having his first race for IS months.